The aim of ISGC is to promote the use of grid and cloud computing in the Asia Pacific region. Over the 9 years that ISGC has been running, the programme has evolved to become more user community focused with subjects reaching out to a larger population. Research communities are making widespread use of distributed computing facilities. Linking together data centers, production grids, desktop systems or public clouds, many researchers are able to do more research and produce results more quickly. They could do much more if the computing infrastructures they use worked together more effectively. Changes in the way we approach distributed computing, and new services from commercial providers, mean that boundaries are starting to blur. This opens the way for hybrid solutions that make it easier for researchers to get their job done. Consequently the theme for ISGC2011 was the opportunities that better integrated computing infrastructures can bring, and the steps needed to achieve the vision of a seamless global research infrastructure.
2011 is a year of firsts for ISGC. First the title - while the acronym remains the same, its meaning has changed to reflect the evolution of computing: The International Symposium on Grids and Clouds. Secondly the programming - ISGC 2011 has always included topical workshops and tutorials. But 2011 is the first year that ISGC has been held in conjunction with the Open Grid Forum2 which held its 31st meeting with a series of working group sessions. The ISGC plenary session included keynote speakers from OGF that highlighted the relevance of standards for the research community. ISGC with its focus on applications and operational aspects complemented well with OGF’s focus on standards development. ISGC brought to OGF real-life use cases and needs to be addressed while OGF exposed the state of current developments and issues to be resolved if commonalities are to be exploited.
Another first is for the Proceedings – for 2011, an open access online publishing scheme will ensure these Proceedings will appear more quickly and more people will have access to the results, providing a long-term online archive of the event.
The symposium attracted more than 212 participants from 29 countries spanning Asia, Europe and the Americas. Coming so soon after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the participation of our Japanese colleagues was particularly appreciated. Keynotes by invited speakers highlighted the impact of distributed computing infrastructures in the social sciences and humanities, high energy physics, earth and life sciences. Plenary sessions entitled Grid Activities in Asia Pacific surveyed the state of grid deployment across 11 Asian countries.
Through the parallel sessions, the impact of distributed computing infrastructures in a range of research disciplines was highlighted. Operational procedures, middleware and security aspects were addressed in a dedicated sessions.
The symposium was covered online in real-time by the GridCast team from the GridTalk project. A running blog including summarises of specific sessions as well as video interviews with keynote speakers and personalities and photos.
As with all regions of the world, grid and cloud computing has to be prove it is adding value to researchers if it is be accepted by them and demonstrate its impact on society as a while if it to be supported by national governments, funding agencies and the general public. ISGC has helped foster the emergence of a strong regional interest in the earth and life sciences, notably for natural disaster mitigation and bioinformatics studies.
Prof. Simon C. Lin organised an intense social programme with a gastronomic tour of Taipei culminating with a banquet for all the symposium’s participants at the hotel Palais de Chine.
I would like to thank all the members of the programme committee, the participants and above all our hosts, Prof. Simon C. Lin and his excellent support team at Academia Sinica.
Dr. Bob Jones
Programme Chair
1 http://event.twgrid.org/isgc2011/
2 http://www.gridforum.org/
| session Keynote |
| Computing at LHC experiments in the first year of data taking at 7 TeV PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)106 pdf |
| Grids and Clouds Integration and Interoperability: an overview PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)112 pdf |
| session Operation & Management |
| A new job migration algorithm to improve data center efficiency PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)008 pdf |
| Introduction of GSDC project and activities PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)013 pdf |
| The CHAIN Project PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)017 pdf |
| Grid Operational Supports for Middleware Deployment and User Administration PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)018 pdf |
| session Humanities & Social Sciences Applications |
| From Internal Validation to Sensitivity Test: How Grid Computing Facilitates the Construction of an Agent-Based Simulation in Social Sciences PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)002 pdf |
| metaDictionary - Towards a Generic e-Infrastructure for Detecting Variation in Language by Exploiting Dictionaries PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)003 pdf |
| session Middleware & Interoperability |
| Visualisation Element: towards the definition of a new Grid service PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)019 pdf |
| SAGA-based application to use resources on different Grids PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)021 pdf |
| A Simplified Access to Grid Resources by Science Gateways PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)023 pdf |
| Secure Peer to Peer Message Passing using A-JUMP PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)024 pdf |
| session Security & Networking |
| Proxy Dynamic Delegation in Grid Gateway PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)027 pdf |
| A new "lightweight" Crypto Library for supporting an Advanced Grid Authentication Process with Smart Cards PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)029 pdf |
| A Race for Security: Identifying Vulnerabilities on 50 000 Hosts Faster than Attackers PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)031 pdf |
| A Cloud-Based Anti-Malware Solution PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)034 pdf |
| session Data Infrastructure |
| Kindura - archiving with iRODS clouds PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)039 pdf |
| Large-Scale Data Management and Analysis for Astronomical Research PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)044 pdf |
| Towards a distributed Earth Science Data Infrastructure PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)114 pdf |
| session Grids & Clouds |
| An attempt to integrate Clouds in Grids PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)045 pdf |
| Investigation of storage options for scientific computing on Grid and Cloud facilities PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)047 pdf |
| Performance improvements in a large scale virtualization system PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)049 pdf |
| Repoman: A Simple RESTful X.509 Virtual Machine Image Repository PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)052 pdf |
| A Web-based portal to access and manage WNoDeS Virtualized Cloud resources PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)054 pdf |
| Defining Generic Architecture for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Provisioning Model PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)115 pdf |
| session Distributed Desktop Grid and Volunteer Computing |
| Porting applications to a Distributed Computing Infrastucture incorporating Desktop Grids PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)060 pdf |
| session Biomedicine & Life Sciences Applications |
| A cloud framework for high troughput biological data processing PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)069 pdf |
| Bioscience in the Cloud - Next Generation Analysis PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)117 pdf |
| A new flexible workflow on the Grid for monitoring H5N1 PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)118 pdf |
| Enabling JChem on the Grid PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)119 pdf |
| session Earth Sciences Applications & Environmental Monitoring & Disaster Mitigation |
| The Cloud-Based Sensor Data Warehouse PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)075 pdf |
| A Lesson Learned of Cloud Computing in Fleet Management System in Taiwan PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)076 pdf |
| Earthquake-tsunami hazard assessment and risk mitigation in Vietnam using GIS PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)077 pdf |
| Modeling scenarios of earthquake-generated tsunamis for the Vietnam coasts PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)078 pdf |
| The CWB Network Information exChange Environment (NICE) PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)082 pdf |
| session HEP Applications |
| Simulation and user analysis of BaBar data in a distributed cloud PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)086 pdf |
| session Grids and Clouds Activities in Asia Pacific |
| Asia Federation Report on International Symposium on Grids and Clouds (ISGC) 2011 PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)090 pdf |
| EU-IndiaGrid2 sustainable e-Infrastructures across Europe and India PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)094 pdf |
| Grids and Clouds Activities in KISTI/ Korea PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)095 pdf |
| Grids and Clouds in ITB PoS(ISGC 2011 & OGF 31)102 pdf |